Cowboys' moves create $23 million in space

Mario Williams salary was aprox $9 mills in 2012 and will be arround $11mills in 2013.

It will climb to $17mills in 2014 but i think they will rework that deal once 2014 comes by. Just because the Salary cap will stay constant throu 2014.

His guranteed money wasn't 50mills. He got a signing bonus of $19mills Dollars. Everything else is not guaranteed. In fact he has alot of options and workout bonuses in his contract.

You can't compare tackling numbers of an 3-4 OLB and an 4-3 DE. Usually 4-3 DE get payed when they are great pass rusher but strong against the run also. Later is the reason why Williams gets that kind of money

"I'm ecstatic, very excited. I can't wait for the opportunity," Williams said Thursday after signing a six-year deal potentially worth $100 million. "There's no pressure. I've played against great quarterbacks. And I'm looking forward to playing against these quarterbacks, chasing them down and making things happen."

Williams' deal, which includes $50 million in guaranteed money, is the richest ever given to an NFL defensive player.

Spencer is a good LB and i'd love to keep him if we where still a 3-4 team, but i'm not sure he'd make a good DE pass rushing is not his strenght. I think it would be in everyone once best interest if we part ways

Actually, he was a pretty good pass-rushing DE in college with 10.5 sacks his senior year. But I would franchise him precisely because we don't know what kind of DE he'd be on this level.

It would give us one year to find out and decide if he's worthy of a long-term deal.

If we cut him, then we are either relying on former college ends Jason Hatcher and Tyrone Crawford, who have more question marks at end, picking up one in FA (which won't be cheap) or spending our valuable first-round pick on one.